You don't see this every day! On a brisk fall morning, #493 hauls a load of wrapped-up passenger cars to their winter storage. A few box cars, a concessions car, and a caboose round out the consis... (more)

The fireman has just snagged the train order hoop from the CPR operator as the "Montreal Limited", the overnight train from Albany to Montreal, moves through the Napierville Junction Railway (D&H ... (more)

We would sneak over form railfanning the Santa Fe, to try and catch the brand new 8000 series B39-8/B40-8 on Beaumont Hill. In the process we ended up with trains like these with five B30-7. I'm s... (more)

Inside the locomotive maintenance hall of the SBB Bellinzona shops, the 10600 HP Re 6/6 11632 « Däniken » had one power axle removed for repairs. Now that it is ready, it is lifted and moved right... (more)

A BNSF light engine move under what I believe was symbol M-SPMSPM1-30A slowly rolls through Lebanon Missouri back toward Springfield. The crew had just realigned a switch and was just getting back... (more)

4023 spots cars for loading at the mine.

Weyerhaeuser's inbound Woods Line train to the Longview, Washington mill is crossing the spectacular trestle at Rocky Point. The tracks in the foreground are Burlington Northern's main line betwee... (more)

Eastern Railway Station in downtown of Budapest. In the background you can see the most outstanding sights of Budapest swimming in a flood, such as (from left to the right) the Statue of Liberty o... (more)

The city of Elko was born a railroad town. The Central Pacific and Western Pacific both laid tracks through the heart of downtown, but in the 1980s the tracks were moved outside of town. Luckily a... (more)

All but forgotten: MWRC #1 "Mt. Washington". Tucked away behind the engine shed at the Cog Railway's shop complex sits an old soldier that has long since been put out to pasture. ... (more)

In October 1982 the Central Vermont and Boston & Maine ran a promotional version of their Rocket overnight piggyback service between St. Albans, VT, and New Haven, CT. Headed up by CV and B&M GP9s... (more)

A special South Shore passenger move heads north through Munster after participating in a groundbreaking ceremony for the West Lake corridor in Dyer.

The Power of the Wind

Dedicated Union Pacific Vestas loads designed for windmill energy power over the ATSF bridge south of Larkspur, CO in a befitting early Spring day. Impend... (more)

In the early 1970s, leased Penn Central GG1s were in charge of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor trains west of New Haven. PC 4894 is spouting steam as it leads a Boston-Washington run passing through O... (more)